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A Not-So-Secret Garden That Whets More Than Appetites
The Hoya Harvest Garden may look like a garden, but it's much more. The living laboratory generates fresh produce for Georgetown's food pantry and offers hands-on learning…
October 27, 2023
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Earth Commons Nourishes Community at Hoya Harvest Festival
Georgetown’s Earth Commons Institute hosted its second annual Hoya Harvest Festival, a celebration of the bounty from the annual growing season, on the Regents Hall patio Oct.…
October 23, 2023
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A Georgetown University team exposes hazardous materials in some playground material
A team of scientists at Georgetown University says inside that crumb rubber, they found potentially dangerous.…
October 23, 2023
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Unearthing the Ecological Impacts of Cicada Emergences on North American Forests
New research unveils the cascading effects of periodical cicada emergence events on forest ecosystems ahead of an historic convergence of broods set to emerge spring of 2024.…
October 19, 2023
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Hoya Harvest Festival 2023
On Friday, October 13th, 2023, Georgetown University’s annual Hoya Harvest Festival, hosted by the Earth Commons, unfolded as a joyful celebration of sustainability,…
October 18, 2023
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Workers Exposed to Extreme Heat Have Few Protections
Anthony Soto, a 22-year-old baggage claim employee at the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, crumpled to the floor near gate C15 after a seizure last October that he…
October 5, 2023
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Humanity for Habitat: Residential Yards as an Opportunity for Biodiversity Conservation
The primary threat to biodiversity is habitat loss and degradation. Private residential land (yards) encompass large proportions of urban, suburban, and rural spaces and is among…
October 5, 2023
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Montana appeals landmark youth climate victory
Montana is appealing a first-of-its-kind U.S. climate ruling that rebuked state regulators for violating young people's constitutional right to a clean and healthful.…
October 4, 2023
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How environmental, geographic, socio-demographic, and epidemiological indicators influence malaria prevalence
In this study, 27 years of prevalence data (1990-2017) were used to examine the effects of environmental (temperature, precipitation, normalized difference vegetation index,…
October 3, 2023
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SFS Launches New Masters of Science in Environment and International Affairs
The Georgetown University School of Foreign Service (SFS) will launch a new masters of science in environment and international affairs (MS-EIA) in August 2024 as a joint degree…
September 28, 2023